A Few Perspectives on OpenOffice.org

Several customers share their experiences with OpenOffice.org and why they came back to Microsoft Office

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MrCentipede (363 Days ago)
 
In my experience, for 90% of users (and 99.9% of home-based users) Open Office works very well. This video is extremely deceptive in the way it emphasizes the few exceptions. Also, what kind of horrible professor would give a decreased grade for using an uncommon piece of software? OO to Word conversion problems are almost always extremely minor, so why is Microsoft identifying itself with that kind of petty behavior?
walterbyrd (382 Days ago)
 
Use whatever suits you best. But please realize this video is pure MS propaganda. The fact that MS has to resort to this shows that MS feels threatened. This sort of FUD shows MS to be pathetic and desperate.
jus1982b (406 Days ago)
 
Microsoft TM* pushes proprietary standards when the community clearly wants open standards in the work place. OpenOffice works great, if Microsoft made there software inner-operable with others that would be the day :)
Karl (464 Days ago)
 
Both products are very useful and have their features and should be used for that. It depends on your needs. I've found OpenOffice and MS Office both useful and powerful but also buggy and sometimes unstable (still need those updates, security updates, Service Packs) *Some* truth is still a lie, which this video ends up being. It's not telling the whole truth and that turns me off more from Microsoft :-(
keithm81354 (480 Days ago)
 
Aside from the acronyms.
keithm81354 (480 Days ago)
 
I sure wish people who make comments on these pages could spell and use proper grammar.
MShasFail (486 Days ago)
 
OppenOffice.org is not really that different from Microsoft Office 2003 so I dont know how it would be difficult to figure out. I have't had any problems with OpenOffice. MS Office has to come up with something better than this video its not convincing enough. *** its not going to make me change my mind.
LinuxForever (491 Days ago)
 
curse called Micro$oft
litosoft (491 Days ago)
 
Please, someone could inform in wich software tool was performed this video/animation? Tks - lito-soft@hotmail.com
ppwin (492 Days ago)
 
well done you just shot your own foot,this will be another PR disaster same as Vista mistakes, oh well done. Don't forget to congratulate yourselves for the amount of money you just lost, on this useless advert.
BrianH (493 Days ago)
 
Bang on... Open Office is not usable for any business that deals with the outside world.
MagikGimp (493 Days ago)
 
Or you could just steal Office '10, it's not hard (as usual).
sig (493 Days ago)
 
Good job guys. I got a new laptop with obligatory Windows 7 and was trying to choose to use OpenOffice or Microsoft Office. I came here and can't even watch the video because it needs Microsoft Silverlight TM which of course is not available for my OS. OpenOffice it is then.
shan3 (494 Days ago)
 
How much of an heartless teacher do you have to be to give your students a lower grade because they cannot afford to buy MS Office to do their assignments and instead use a perfectly competent free alternative?
dodo3773 (494 Days ago)
 
About a year ago I made a call to microsoft about an office 2003 suite. After being transfered 3 times they told me that they could not help me because the software was out of date and not supported any more. I recently had a dual boot setup with windows 7 ultimate and ubuntu 10.04. I decided to just reformat and use only ubuntu and have not looked back. I do not like your company and I do not trust your code either. I will never go back to using windows at home ever.
Patrick (494 Days ago)
 
If your software suit was truly that much better you wouldn't have to create videos just to "inform" people, they'd already know. If people want to use a free product instead of an expensive one, a video isn't going to convince them otherwise. If you really want more people to purchase it you should lower the price and make it more affordable.
ixau (496 Days ago)
 
Interesting video indeed - presented in times when the OpenOffice brand is about to get marginalized in favor of the LibreOffice. Still can't figure out if it is a favor to Oracle by legitimizing OpenOffice as the sole contender of MS Office replacement. What I find even most facinating is that it seems to me that Google Docs is the real danger to Microsoft Office.
thenonhacker (497 Days ago)
 
OpenOffice is so bad, people would rather be good with Google Docs and Office Web Apps, and I'm not even suggest Microsoft Office 2007/2010 yet!
 
 
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